Pacing Quotes

“A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“I have continued to get sicker in part because I refuse to rest as much as I should, because I am optomistic and because I push myself.”
― Whitney Dafoe

“All significant action must be followed by inaction.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“Pacing is much easier if you try to live life, but within your limitations. Luckily, pacing often makes it possible to have a life despite ME. It might be a small life, but it will still be your own.”
― Ingebjørg Midsem Dahl, Classic Pacing for a Better Life with ME

“Pacing consists of listening to your body, and seeing symptoms as signs, usually of overactivity. You use information from your body to reorganise your activities to get as low a symptom level as possible. This usually means splitting activities into smaller bits and taking frequent rest breaks. It also means finding less strenuous ways of performing activities. When less energy is spent on some activities, you’ll have more energy left over to have fun.”
― Ingebjørg Midsem Dahl, Classic Pacing for a Better Life with ME

“My nerves tingled with the sense of adventure. Throwing aside my cigarette, I closed my hand upon the butt of my revolver, and, walking swiftly up the door, I looked in.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles

“This is an example of pacing when shopping. Break shopping into multiple steps: 1) rest at home before driving the car to the store, 2) drive to the store, 3) rest, lying down in the car after driving to the store, 4) shop for 30 min in the store, 5) rest lying down in the car before going home, 6) drive home and 7) rest at home.”
― Alison C. Bested

“Highs only seem higher after a low.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“Even the most beautiful of eulogies benefits from the occasional dramatic pause.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“I pace up and down from one wall to the other talking to myself like a patient in a mental hospital. That naked body I catch sight of every time I pass the mirror makes me feel like throwing up. The grey flesh with its covering of black hairs somehow attracts me and disgusts me at the same time.”
― Roland Topor, Head-to-Toe Portrait of Suzanne

“It was my first time going out in two hundred years. I walked along slowly.”
― Ameko Kaeruda, Dragon Daddy Diaries: A Girl Grows to Greatness Volume 1

“She thought of the animals at the Zoo. She and Bub had gone there one Sunday afternoon. They arrived in time to see the lions and tigers being fed. There was a moment, before the great hunks of red meat were thrust into the cages, when the big cats prowled back and forth, desperate, raging, ravening. They walked in a space even smaller than the confines of the cages made necessary, moving in an area just barely the length of their bodies. A few steps up and turn. A few steps down and turn. They were weaving back and forth, growling, roaring, raging at the bars that kept them from the meat, until the entire building was filled with the sound, until the people watching drew back from the cages, feeling insecure, frightened at the sight and the sound of such uncontrolled savagery. She was becoming something like that.”
― Ann Petry, The Street

“Lan grimaced. Was she that afraid of a man wearing the hadori? Did she think his pacing a threat? Abruptly he became aware of his hands running over the long hilt of his sword, aware of the tightness in his own face. Pacing? No, he had been in the walking stance called Leopard in High Grass, used when there were enemies on all sides. He needed calm.”
― Robert Jordan, New Spring

“We’re transcending and I’m pacing for something more than this.”
― Dominic Riccitello